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Old Feb 21, 2010 | 11:44 PM
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Anyone running headers or a throttle body spacer on their XB2? if so what kind are you using?

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If the xB2 engine responds anything like the tC engine (which it should) a throttle body spacer is absolutely useless. I think there was a dyno from a tC before and after where the tC actually LOST hp from one.
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Originally Posted by XBERRYD
Anyone running headers or a throttle body spacer on their XB2? if so what kind are you using?

thanks
FYI -- an inline engine only has room for one header not multiple like a V-6 or V-8 (hence the V's get headers)

Quite a few people have installed a header on their xB2, try a search for Strup, WeaponR, whatever. For that matter, try searching on "header".
Old Feb 22, 2010 | 03:43 AM
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TB Spacers don't do much on FI cars. They used to do stuff on carb'd cars, allowed a little more time for the fuel to atomize.
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